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"The actors also removed or blackened the orange tips on their toy guns."
Probably would have been a better idea to do this during editing? Sort of gives you a glimpse into the mental HP of these "students". Maybe someone should interview their prof...?
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The students screwed UP. It's a crime to remove or blacken the tips on those weapons.
You should ALWAYS notify the local PD if you're doing anything even remotely like that, simply as a courtesy if nothing else.
Finally, they should have taken steps to make it obvious they were doing a shoot, not a robbery. I've done a fair amount of TV production (Local Access Cable) and won awards for it; You can't be stupid.
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Nonsense. The Arctic sea ice is melting so fast that all of Florida will be underwater by Christmas. Global temperature are soaring. Soon you will beable to fry eggs on a sidewalk in Nome, Alaska. I know because Al Gore said so, and the science is settled.
/sarcasm, if you haven't figured it out.
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The flag has an impressive history, and actually pre-dates the Declaration of Independence. It was in use by the Continental Marines and US Navy in late 1775.
[FoxNews] The president of a Wisconsin animal shelter is furious after the state Department of Natural Resources raided the facility with armed agents, detained volunteer workers and killed a baby deer named "Giggles."
Fifteen armed agents in full raid mode, just to capture a fawn being readied for transfer to a wildlife refuge. They also forcibly kidnapped a Canada goose living on the grounds.
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A 19-year-old staff member took photographs of the raid, but Schultz said a deputy sheriff confiscated his cell phone and deleted all the pictures.
No problem [with potential evidence destruction]. We already have a mental picture of the slovenly overweight storm troopers. We know the color of the uniforms, weapons used, vehicles, screaming invectives, etc. We're seeing it replayed on a nearly daily basis in the "Land of the Free".
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I wonder if they can bring felony charges against the DNR agents and the sheriff deputies for some of the things they did - they are Class B felonies by Wisconsin law.
I say we ban all city and county police departments from having SWAT teams. They have outlived their usefulness, and are more a danger to public liberty than the criminals they use them on.
Wow. Evil banks coming under regulations are actually evil as they do stuff like close accounts of companies they don't like, such as Defense Distributed. Defense Distributed released plans for the 3D printed gun earlier in the year only to pull the documents. Now, JP Morgan Chase Bank has terminated Defense Distributed's accounts.
A national news website comes up with several reasons why gun sales have dropped so much. Short answer? Gun control. But this hews to government background check statistics. Not to private sales which may well dwarf dealer gun sales. Dunno.
Finally, someone is doing something about toy guns. In St. Louis they are swapping toy guns for educational toys. No report if anyone has turned in any assault toys. Or ball gags. You know: silencers.
And lastly, field stripping your .45 ACP:
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.02 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bang It Ammo, Precision One reloaded .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammuntion, Tulammo steel cased, .36 per round
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson,180 grain, From Last Week: -.10 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bang It Ammo, Precision One reloaded .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .28 per round
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: -.01 each (-.05 per round over two weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munition, Wolf Polyformance steel case, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1000 rounds: Blue Core Shooting center, P&G Performance, reloaded, .28 per round
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Fiocchi .49 per round
Cheapest, Bulk 250 rounds: LAX Ammunition, reloaded, .40 per round
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.02 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Brown Bear, steel cased, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk 500 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf, steel cased, .35 per round
Cheapest brass cased: Ammuniton to Go, DRS reloaded, .45 per round
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.03 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bang it Ammo, Silver bear FMJ, .62 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammunition Supply Warehouse, Prvi Partizan steel cased, .64 per round
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Brown Bear, steel core and case, .27 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Brown Bear, steel core and case, .25 per round
Cheapest, Brass casing: Ventura Munitions, Fiocchi, .54 per round
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: -.10 each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammofast, Federal Gold target, .06 per round
Cheapest, Bulk, 325 rounds: Natchez Shooter Supplies, Federal Champion, .06 per round
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles .223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average price: $1,010
California: American Tactical Imports: $1000
Texas: CMMG: $900
New York: New Frontier (pink plastic furniture): $850
Maryland: Spikes Tactical: $1,450
Florida: Custom Build: $850
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,740
California: Sig Sauer 716: $1,300
Texas: Patriot Ordnance Factory: $1,500
New York: DPMS Oracle: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Maryland: DPMS LRT-SASS /w scope : $2,600 (Same Gun)
Florida: DPMS w/scope: $2,100
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $739
California: WASR: $800
Texas: Saiga: $1,000
New York: Saiga: $895 (Same Gun)
Maryland: Saiga: $500
Florida: Century International Arms: $500
h/t Instapundit
Police in Kenya say an American diplomat crossed the center line in his SUV while speeding and rammed a mini-bus full of passengers, killing a father of three whose wife is six-months pregnant.
The U.S. Embassy rushed the American out of the country, leaving the crash victims with no financial recourse. Latifah Naiman Mariki, now a 38-year-old widow, said Friday that she was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Marikis deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the familys only source of income
...The drivers name is Joshua Walde, an 11-year employee of the State Department. And Id expect thats all the information about him were likely to get.
Joshua Walde | LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/pub/joshua-walde/10/673/3a7Information Management Officer at U.S. · Government Administration · Kenya
Joshua Walde. Experience: Information Management Officer, Embassy of the United States, Zagreb, Croatia; Information Management Officer for EUR-IO/EX, U.S.
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Next time a drunken foreign diplo kills here just shrug it off or prepare to respect reciprocity. Lot more opportunity here for offing citizens. Oops, that terms banned in Seattle. My bad.
#8
This is how we do business, leaving everyone out on the cold. I've personally experienced it, but not to this level, of course. There should be no immunity for reckless behavior, and at least we should pay the family's way until this is sorted out. Probably more.
#9
There was a case a few years ago here where a diplomat hit and killed someone while drunk. The US requested that his host country revoke his diplomatic immunity, which they did.
We should do the same, if asked. Diplomatic immunity is supposed to be so that diplomats aren't arrested on trumped up charges, not so actual offenders can escape consequences.
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A Muslim prayer leader charged with touching the breasts of two teenagers and a grandmother on the beach believes he is the victim of a misunderstanding. Ahmed Alkahly, a 59-year-old Egyptian who is a well-known qari, or prayer reciter, in his homeland, is visiting Sydney to lead evening prayers at the Dee Why Masjid mosque during the month of Ramadan.
Police allege that, in two separate incidents on Wednesday, he approached a 16-year-old girl and a 57-year-old grandmother, who was pushing her grandson in a carriage, and indecently assaulted them by touching their breasts on Dee Why Beach. Both victims called the police, and Alkahly was found nearby minutes later and arrested.
However, Alkahly's Sydney-based son said it was all the result of a misunderstanding and his father, who does not speak English, is so embarrassed and distressed by the arrest that he has almost had a nervous breakdown.
He said the incidents arose when people on the beach asked to have their photos taken with his father, who was wearing exotic Egyptian Islamic dress.
"Since I'm not praying at the moment, I may as well walk down to the beach in my exotic costume and pose for some photos with the local infidel babes."
Alkahly came into contact with one of the women when her dog started barking and gnarling at him, said the son, adding, "I'm so depressed, I can't talk."
Usamah Alamudi, a spokesman for Dee Why Masjid, said Alkahly was simply showing "love and compassion" but had not understood the cultural differences between Australia and Egypt.
I think in Egypt a strange cleric touching a woman's private parts is even less acceptable than in Australia, where it is not acceotable at all.
Alamudi said, "He's very distressed. He's been crying. He's a good man."
The mosque released a short statement on its website advising people not to send abusive emails. The statement said, "In relation to recent alleged assault charges against a temporary visitor connected to Dee Why Mosque, we would like to inform the public that he is NOT the imam of Dee Why Mosque nor he is directly employed by us. Please refrain from sending abusive emails to Dee Why Mosque's imam as he has nothing to do with this."
[TRUST.ORG] Aetna Inc has withdrawn its applications to sell insurance plans on Maryland's individual health exchange after it was asked to lower its rates by up to 29 percent, according to the state's department of insurance.
In an Aug. 1 letter sent to the Department of Insurance, Aetna said the required rate modifications cut premiums too low on both its Aetna and Coventry products. Aetna closed on the acquisition of Coventry Health Care this spring.
"Unfortunately, we believe the modifications to the rates filed by Aetna and Coventry would not allow us to collect enough premiums to cover the cost of the plans, including the medical network and service expectations of our customers," Aetna said in a letter to insurance commissioner Therese Goldsmith.
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This is part of the plan - the greedy insurance companies backed Obamacare because it required citizens to buy thier product. But the government's ultimate goal is to force down the rates to where private insurance becomes untenable, at which time they impose their end-goal: single payer socialized medicine across the board.
Just like Walmart backing the Obamacare, then setting up their employees to where Walmart can dump them on the government "exchanges" instead of offering decent insurance, cutting them to below 30 hours to avoid the fines. SO Walmart keeps its profits, but we pay for their employees health care. And Walmart isn't the only one, just one of the bigger named backers of Obamacare that is using it to reduces employee costs. Same goes for the "new jobs" under Obama that have been mainly part-time positions (only 100K out of 700K in last report were full time) in order to avoid the requirement to provide healthcare.
When will the press be honest and publicize the WHOLE truth about Obamacare and its actual effects? Our supposedly free press has become a propaganda organ for collectivists, and deserves the same fate as Goebbels and others who lied and obfuscated - the leaders and editors deserve imprisonment and in many cases, execution.
[BREITBART] After purchasing the Boston Globe in 1993 for a then-record $1.1 billion, the financially troubled New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... just announced it sold the 141 year-old paper to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry for a mere $70 million. That's a straight 93% loss. Figuring in two decades of inflation would only make it worse -- as does the fact the Times retains the Globe's pension liabilities, estimated at over $100 million.
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Good lord! The NYT retained the pension liabilities???? ROFLMAO
[AnNahar] More than 170,000 Moslems prayed outside Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, as the holy month of Ramadan entered its final full week, police said.
The faithful turned out in droves to prostrate themselves in the vast Al-Aqsa compound within the walled Old City, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
Moslem religious authorities, however, told Agence La Belle France Presse the number was 300,000.
The compound, a flashpoint because of its significance to both Moslems and Jews, is several hundred meters (thousands of feet) long and wide and houses the Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques.
Some 3,000 police were deployed to avoid confrontations between Moslems and Jews, who worship at the bottom of the Western Wall, right beneath the Al-Aqsa compound.
Tensions often run high in that part of the Old City, with Jews trying to enter the compound, sometimes in disguise, to venerate it as the site of the Temple Mount.
Jews are not allowed to pray inside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
The Israeli authorities relaxed usual restrictions on entry to Jerusalem by Paleostinians in the West Bank for a second week, allowing access to women of all ages and men over 40 years old.
Paleostinians from the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip are usually barred from Israel and from east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in the 1967 Six-Day war and then unilaterally annexed.
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The Israeli authorities relaxed usual restrictions on entry to Jerusalem by Paleostinians in the West Bank for a second week, allowing access to women of all ages and men over 40 years old.
Military Age Males (MAM's), please stay home. Smart move ek se.
Owner of the Boston Red Sox buys the Globe for less than 10 percent of what the NY Times paid ten years ago. Times keeps the unfunded pension liabilities. As I commented before, the purchase of the Globe would be worth it if you could strip out the assets and sell them. Otherwise, it's a bad deal.
From TFA:
The Boston Globe, one of the most prestigious US newspapers,
...hah...
is being sold for a fraction of what it was worth 20 years ago.
The New York Times company bought it for $1.1bn (£700m) in 1993 but has now agreed to sell it for $70m.
Like many US newspapers, the Globe has been hit by a slump in advertising revenue with circulation declining.
The buyer is John W Henry, the main owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team and Liverpool Football Club.
So he has money to burn...
In a statement in the Globe, Mr Henry praised the paper's journalistic pedigree: "The Boston Globe's award-winning journalism as well as its rich history and tradition of excellence have established it as one of the most well-respected media companies in the country."
Mr Henry, 63, estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.5bn, made his fortune from financial investments.
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2013: "Mr Henry, 63, estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.5bn, made his fortune from financial investments."
2020: "Mr Henry, 70, estimated by Forbes to be worth $0.25bn, made his fortune from financial investments. He is highly regarded among the Boston elite"
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He is highly regarded among the Boston elite
That explains the lack of outcry by the progs. He's one of theirs.
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Suppose they put Detroit back on its feet. Then what?
A most excellent question! Cities grow up where they do for a reason. At the start of the 1900s, there were dozens of little startup auto companies. The Great Lakes provided cheap and easy shipping for raw materials. Lots of tool & die shops, and parts manufacturers. Skilled, educated population. Lots of jobs from the auto industry and it's associated support companies. All gone now.
Now... the productive citizens have either been chased away or moved out of their own accord. Jobs are gone along with the auto industry; although the Detroit Metro region is still a center for technology and manufacturing, it's all in the suburbs. The remaining people are barely literate and have shown a distinct inability to govern themselves. Bad schools, crime and bad government. It could dry up and blow away without a noticeable economic impact on the rest of the state. The city will get smaller before it gets bigger.
I caught a glimpse of this at Ace's place, and now I am sorry I did. What a mess. Anyway, the male feminist, Hugo Schwyzer, a professor of wimynz studies at a California college is taking a hiatus from writing about feminism because it was found out he changed the sequence of the events of his redemption, and failed to note several instances of abuse of students, etc. As I said, a mess. It's all fiskable, but there's a lot of material:
From TFA:
I wrote nearly two weeks ago that I'd be taking a break from online writing. I intend to continue to do so. I want to be a bit more specific as to why.
For one, the toxicity of take-down culture is exhausting and dispiriting. The cheapest and easiest tweets and articles to compose are snarky and clever dismantlings of what someone else has worked hard to create. The defenders of this culture of fierceness call it intellectual honesty, but it is an honesty too often edged in cruelty. I'll admit It: I'm a most imperfect man. I have an absolutely dreadful past, one for which I continue to make quiet amends. I'm also frequently a smug and sloppy writer. But despite that past and my glib prose, I don't think I'm wrong that when it comes to a concerted effort to drive me off the internet, I've been more sinned against than sinning. When you want to really talk about sinning, you should come to Jesus. Feminism is not about redemption. Only Christ is about that.
So I'm done. I surrender the field to the critics who wanted me gone from feminist spaces. Spoken like a true feminist.
Secondly, my family and I have been through a very difficult time as late, the details of which are saved for close friends but which are linked to this internet business. Contrary to rumors, I have kept my sobriety but it has been a near run thing. My fragile mental health and my relationship with my wife and children must take first priority. Not enough apple jack, then?
I'm not "flouncing." I'm not mad. I'm sad and hurt by a culture in which what we can say online is policed by clever cynicism masquerading as progressive outrage. I've tried for ten years and I've had a little success and a lot of failure and made many wonderful friends. I wish you all well. Flouncing? The NBA calls it flopping. The military and others call it dogging it. You chose your friends, Hugo, poorly, as it turned out, and for what?
And perhaps, in a long time, in a different capacity, I'll be back to a public life. Lock up da pills and da wimminzez!
UPDATE: Perhaps ill-advisedly, I did an interview with Kat Stoeffel at New York Mag yesterday. She captured my words almost verbatim, and as self-absorbed and tone-deaf as they may come across in spots, it's an accurate interview with which I can have no complaints. The unflattering portrayal is my doing, not Kat's. I didn't read the interview because of all the other stupid bullsh*t. But here is the interview.
As a personal update and partial explanation, I am out of the hospital after a psychiatric hold and I'm on a cluster of drugs that affect my mood, my judgment, and my capacity to engage. While I stand by the interview, those drugs (including heavy doses of Lithium, Klonopin and so forth) played a part in the poor way I framed things. Nonetheless, I take full responsibility for every word I said, save for the unkind remark about XoJane publisher Jane Pratt. I'd also like to clarify that the Good Men Project has changed substantially since Tom Matlack left, and has become a more feminist-friendly site than when I was forced out. Translation: I was drunk. I didn't know what I was doing.
Through all this public career, I have carefully (or not so) concealed a serious mental illness that has once again come to the fore. If nothing else, I ask for prayers for my wife Eira, my daughter Heloise, and my son David. They are innocents in this story. Dude, you are part of a movement that is against you because you are male. The pillz don't take the edge off that; they intensify the problems you have. You're in the wrong place to begin with. Leaving is prolly the first smart thing have have done with relation to feminism.
Also, this.
And I will be doing no more interviews. I'm gone. This link summarizes the problems Hugo has had with getting laid feminists.
" I am out of the hospital after a psychiatric hold and I'm on a cluster of drugs that affect my mood, my judgment, and my capacity to engage."
"those drugs (including heavy doses of Lithium, Klonopin and so forth"
"I have carefully (or not so) concealed a serious mental illness"
Yet through all this he still feels confident enough to lecture me and everyone else on how to live life and relate to other people especially wymynz? What a maroon.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that," says Steven Goddard website.
A Muslim prayer leader charged with touching the breasts of two teenagers and a grandmother on the beach believes he is the victim of a misunderstanding. Ahmed Alkahly, a 59-year-old Egyptian who is a well-known qari, or prayer reciter, in his homeland, is visiting Sydney to lead evening prayers at the Dee Why Masjid mosque during the month of Ramadan.
